{"title":"Beyond uncertainty: reasoning with unknown possibilities (Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy)","authors":"E. Piermont","doi":"10.1080/1350178x.2024.2376417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2024.2376417","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of Economic Methodology (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":46507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Methodology","volume":"245 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141779243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paternalism for rational agents","authors":"Kevin Leportier","doi":"10.1080/1350178x.2024.2346116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2024.2346116","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of strategic interactions, individuals sometimes find themselves better off when they have fewer options. This mechanism is known under the name of ‘strategic commitment’, as it is u...","PeriodicalId":46507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Methodology","volume":"2015 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140935406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experimental approach to development economics: a review of issues and options","authors":"C. S. C. Sekhar, Namrata Thapa","doi":"10.1080/1350178x.2024.2341292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2024.2341292","url":null,"abstract":"Randomized control trials (RCTs) are recognized as the preferred tool of analysis in modern development economics literature/research and policy evaluation. This may lead to methodologies, includin...","PeriodicalId":46507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Methodology","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140611811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic models and their flexible interpretations: a philosophy of science perspective","authors":"Jaakko Kuorikoski, Caterina Marchionni","doi":"10.1080/1350178x.2024.2336048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2024.2336048","url":null,"abstract":"We mobilise contemporary philosophy of science to further clarify observations on economic modelling made by Gilboa et al. (2023). We adopt a normative stance towards these modelling practices to i...","PeriodicalId":46507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Methodology","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140602824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insider apology for microeconomic theorising?","authors":"Maarten Janssen, Tarja Knuuttila, Mary S. Morgan","doi":"10.1080/1350178x.2024.2326895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2024.2326895","url":null,"abstract":"This comment on 'Economic theories and their Dueling interpretations' questions the descriptive adequacy of the ‘sociology of economics' proposed by Gilboa, Postlewaite, Samuelson, and Schmeidler (...","PeriodicalId":46507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Methodology","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140168837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Explanation, prediction, and conceptual exploration","authors":"Daniel Hausman","doi":"10.1080/1350178x.2024.2326909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2024.2326909","url":null,"abstract":"This essay aims to provide a rigorous foundation for Gilboa's, Postlewaite's, Samuelson's and Schmeidler's (GPSS's) account of the constitution of models and the role of models in explanation and p...","PeriodicalId":46507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Methodology","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140168755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Equilibrium modeling in economics: a design-based defense","authors":"Armin W. Schulz","doi":"10.1080/1350178x.2024.2310214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2024.2310214","url":null,"abstract":"Several authors have recently argued that the excessive focus on equilibrium models in mainstream economic analysis prevents economists from providing accurate representations of the complex and dy...","PeriodicalId":46507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Methodology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139903468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aurélien Goutsmedt, Francesco Sergi, Béatrice Cherrier, Juan Acosta, Clément Fontan, François Claveau
{"title":"To change or not to change. The evolution of forecasting models at the Bank of England","authors":"Aurélien Goutsmedt, Francesco Sergi, Béatrice Cherrier, Juan Acosta, Clément Fontan, François Claveau","doi":"10.1080/1350178x.2024.2303113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2024.2303113","url":null,"abstract":"Why do policymakers and economists within a policymaking institution choose to throw away a model and to develop an alternative one? Why do they choose to stick to an existing model? This article c...","PeriodicalId":46507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Methodology","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139764344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Good and bad justifications of analytical modelling","authors":"Robert Sugden","doi":"10.1080/1350178x.2023.2275584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2023.2275584","url":null,"abstract":"Gilboa, Postlewaite, Samuelson and Schmeidler (2022, Economic theories and their dueling interpretations. Journal of Economic Methodology, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2022.2142270; henceforth GPSS) give a ‘sociological’ account of various ways in which economists claim to find value in ‘analytical’ models – i.e. models that investigate formal relationships between concepts without deriving substantive empirical or normative conclusions. In this paper, I argue that some of the claims that GPSS report economists as making are defensible, but that others are used in support of modelling strategies that have little or no scientific value.","PeriodicalId":46507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Methodology","volume":"59 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136346981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Preferences: An Introduction to Behavioural Economics and Experimental Research <b>Social Preferences: An Introduction to Behavioural Economics and Experimental Research</b> by M. Drouvelis, Newcastle upon Tyne, the UK, Agenda Publishing, 2021, 210 p., £22.99, ISBN 9781788214179 (paperback)","authors":"Egor Bronnikov","doi":"10.1080/1350178x.2023.2272413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2023.2272413","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Methodology","volume":"82 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135271783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}